Chasing Powder: 7 Day Ski Touring Adventure In Golden British Columbia Canada

06:59 min • 12/01/2024

From skipowd.tv :

Alexi Godbout and Griffin Elsley explore the rugged backcountry of Golden, British Columbia, during a seven-day touring expedition at Golden Alpine Holidays. By charging through early season powder, they descend steep alpine faces and technical pillow lines. Every high-speed turn showcases fluid freeride movements adapted for the Canadian wilderness. While navigating complex terrain features across the Selkirk Mountains, these athletes maintain precise edge control.

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Athletes

Alex Beaulieu-Marchand

Canada's first men's slopestyle Olympic medalist Alex Beaulieu-Marchand, known in the contest world as ABM, is the first Canadian man to win an Olympic medal in ski slopestyle, capturing bronze at the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang. Born on March 3, 1994 in Quebec City, he started skiing at age two under the influence of his grandfather and discovered slopestyle at twelve after a friend introduced him to terrain parks. From those early laps, he built a contest career that eventually took him to two Olympic Games, multiple X Games podiums, and a world championship medal — a résumé shaped as much by repeated injury comebacks as by raw talent.... Read more on the Athlete page

Locations

British Columbia

Overview and significance British Columbia is one of skiing’s global reference points. From the maritime Coast Mountains to the colder, drier Interior ranges, the province delivers a rare combination of scale, storm frequency, varied snow climates and an events calendar that shapes the sport. Whistler Blackcomb anchors the Coast with North America’s largest lift-served footprint and an enduring freestyle legacy, while the “Powder Highway” corridors through Revelstoke, Golden, Nelson and Rossland add deep, tree-lined terrain and big-mountain faces that film crews and strong locals lap all winter.... Read more on the Location page

Chasing Powder: 7 Day Ski Touring Adventure In Golden British Columbia Canada

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